Person-centred, travel documentary with Ina Tarantou.

Ina Tarantou travels and gets a view of the "Alterlife". The exact location is not important. The journey becomes the destination and life is experienced through the eyes of the persons she meets. Stories of people whose actions manifest optimism, strength and hope. Through their "eyes" we see life, history and the beauties of our country. People who, despite the adversities, never gave up, took risks and developed new businesses, brought to light unexploited parts of the Greek landscape, and revived local products.

Further or closer to the urban centres, each story lets us in with its own beauty to another side of the Greek landscape, Greek society and Greek reality. Sometimes looking to the future, other times tracing back the deep roots of the past. It is the conveyance of the feeling of...breathlessness. Up on the castle of Skyros, on the top of Mt. Helmos counting the stars, to the playing of the philharmonic orchestras in the alleyways of Corfu at Easter, reaching down to the Cavo D'oro, walking on a tightrope over the gorge of the Aoos river in Konitsa.

Because life is even more beautiful, when you see the Alterlife!

Our journey brought us to fragrant Chios! This island is rich in every way. Its people are kind, its earth smells wonderful. This island is full of beautiful fragrances. They’re all in the air; the mastic, the tangerines of the plains, the jasmine and the wild herbs of the mountains. On the other side, the East comes to sight. Çeşme and Izmir. We wanted to make two episodes, and still, there was a lot left out. In the first episode we will see a different, lesser-known side of Chios with a local captain. A female captain! The captain who welcomed us to the island is none other than the exuberant Mrs. Evgenia or Margarita, as her family calls her. She has been at sea her whole life with her captain husband.

This faith and love for life and our fellow men was the thing that we’ll remember from our first journey to Chios. When you experience true love, death does not scare you. You feel like it enhances life, and you give meaning and substance to your every moment. This and many more, we learned in Chios. About the passion for what you do. About the sweet companionship. About the second chances in life. About offering and giving.